Chinese honour Prof Colin Mackerras with special contribution award

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Professor Emeritus Colin Mackerras,was recently made a recipient of the prestigious China Book Special Contribution Award. Professor Mackerras is the 23rd recipient of the award since its establishment in 2005, and as a representative of all of this year’s award winners, he delivered the keynote speech in China on 25 August in the Great Hall […]

Surveying public opinion in Burma

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For years, decades even, professional Burma watchers, activists and other commentators have been making assessments about developments in Burma (Myanmar) on the basis of very little hard information. Government statistics could not be trusted, official spokesmen rarely gave away anything of value and the state-run press largely peddled propaganda. Reports generated outside Burma were often […]

Destination China

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Australian Banking and Finance – 17 December, 2014 cover story on the impact of free trade agreement between Australia and China includes comments by Dr Steven Hui Feng, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute. To read the the full article click here.

Twists and turns on road to new Chinese revolution

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The Australian has published a feature on the growth of China as a global superpower through the eyes of Griffith University Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras (International Business and Asian Studies) who arrived to Beijing in 1964. You can read the article here.  

On the merits of avoiding stark choices

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Blog has published an article by Griffith Asia Institute Member and Head of the School of Government and International Relations, Professor Andrew O’Neil discussing how strategic analysts have a poor record of anticipating the future shape of international relations. You can read the article here.

Attack at market in China kills 31

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The recent pattern of violence “suggests an escalation both in attacks and the conflict in a societal sense between the Uighur and the Han, which in some ways is unprecedented in scale,” said Dr Michael Clarke. While Xinjiang is home to the Uighur minority, a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim people, most residents of Urumqi are Han […]

Chinese Officials Head to the Countryside

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Half a century after millions of city dwellers were ordered to the countryside, some officials are once again being armed with spades and sent out to the villages of the western regions of China to try to win over the locals. Dr Michael Clarke from the Griffith Asia Institute is quoted in the following article […]